株式会社タテマツは、1885年（明治18年）創業の皮革卸問屋で、1917年（大正6年）に本社を靴の町・浅草聖天町に移してから100年以上の歴史があります。この会社は、アトリエ（工房）向けのレザーを扱う通販サイトも運営しています。 Tatematsu Co., Ltd. is a leather wholesaler established in 1885, boasting a history of over 100 years since relocating its headquarters in 1917 to Asakusa Shoten-cho, a town known for shoes. The company also operates an online store dealing in leather for ateliers and workshops.
The form of trade of leather in the Japanese has taken a somewhat special form compared to the world standard. There are many groups of small family-owned companies that are decentralized by their distribution position so that they can not be compared with overseas. As shown in the figure below, in Japan, tanners concentrate on producing leather. In addition, leather wholesale like our company is more than the concept of wholesaler, it is also the sales and planning department of leather. For foreign countries, it is also an import sector of leather and an export sector.
In addition, there is a factory that specializes in various other processing of leather in Japan. For example, as shown in the figure below, wholesalers directly order to processing company for certain processing of leather. In this case, we have been purchased tanned grandword of leather from a tanner, and order to processing company to process on the leather which is to be followed the trend of leather in each season.
Among these kind of collaboration project, we are now tring to co-operate with the lacquer studio in Wajima city, Ishikawa Prefecture Wajima lacquer(JAPAN) leather has been posted.
If you’re an overseas company that wants to interact in some way with the Japanese leather industry, I really hope you can get in touch.